A Whitinsville man and former Northbridge School Committee member pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of enticing children and possession of child pornography, according to court officials.

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Andrew J. Myers, 34, of 92 Tracey Drive, pleaded guilty, in U.S. District Court in Worcester, to four counts using the Internet to entice minors to engage in unlawful sexual conduct and one count of possessing child pornography, the Milford Daily News reported.

Myers will be sentenced on Sept. 9 at 2:30 p.m.

Myers, a former Boy Scout leader and substitute teacher, was indicted on the charges on Sept. 19, 2012 and arraigned on Sept. 24. He was apprehended as the result of an investigation that began in Colorado.

FBI Special Agent Jennifer Weidlich wrote in an affidavit that a mother contacted the Larimer County, Colo. sheriff's office, claiming her child had been inappropriately contacted by a 33-year-old man via email and Skype. In the emails, the man (later identified as Myers) reportedly called one child "the horniest boy I have in the troop," and said, during his time as a teacher, he "had one boy in the fourth grade last year who would always touch me and get close."

According to Weidlich, investigators searched Myers' email account and found 66 images of child pornography associated with the address. She said solicitations for sexual acts were sent out to three people believed to be minors in the Northbridge area.

The account was linked to Myers with the help of the Northbridge Police Department, Weidlich said. A department officer told her that Myers had worked as a substitute teacher at the Northbridge Middle School.

Weidlich said Myers solicited boys for sexual activity in several emails.

Myers served as a School Committee member from 2005 to 2008, and was a candidate for state representative in 2004.